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The Polish company, located in south-west Poland is one of the most innovative regional SME in the agro-food sector. The SME has developed the unique regional food based mostly on fruit chips.The chips could play a primary role in improving health conditions because they consist only natural fruits. Moreover the chips are not highly processed product, cause the final products come from fresh black currants, cherries and chokeberry. Additionally chips have apples with a little addition of sunflower seeds that is why they taste better than competitive products.

It is worth to emphasize that Polish SME has a rather comprehensive experience and knowledge regarding the natural procedures of processing of fresh fruit. It enables them to deliver the customer valued finished products. Thanks to the use of specialized equipment it is possible to prepare healthy fruit chips in various versions of unique taste. In order to reach the new markets and deliver to the customers valued products the company made a high attention to quality of fruit chips. Compared to the potato chips, fruit chips are mixed pulp of several dried fruits less than 10% humidity. Furthermore they have form of thin squares of about 4/4 cm and a brittle consistency. As present proposed flavors are black currants, cherries and chokeberry, all based on apples with a little addition of sunflower seeds. The list of new tastes and their compositions basically is unlimited.
The ingredients list was described below:
- High in dietary fiber
- Product with high potassium content
- Significant calcium content
- Significant magnesium content
- Significant iron content
- Significant zinc content
- Significant phosphorus content

The chips actually contain a less amount of sugar as competitors products. Moreover the product does not contain sodium or salt. Being purely a mixture of fruits and sunflower seeds, it contains no other ingredients. The energy value of the chips shown below have been obtained with strong respecting natural additives in manufacturing process is and avoiding no unnatural additives are used.
- energy value of 435 kcal in 100 g of the product
- fat 13g in 100 g of the product
- carbohydrates 75g in 100 g of the product
- including sugars 64g in 100 g of the product
- fiber 12g in 100 g of the product

The company focuses on development of its position on foreign markets. Thy is why the SME is interested in establishing of long term cooperation with partners within commercial agency agreement and distribution services agreement

Advantages & innovations

The company can offer to the potential distributors unique and attractive quality products and competitiveness both in price and quality of the products. With their own efforts the SME has developed healthy and fresh food. In that way the company is able to deliver the high quality products with many advantages for people health. The list of the advantages has been described below: - the company uses only fruits directly from farmers and processes them into chips and dry fruits. - the company uses only fruits directly from farmers and processes them into chips and dry fruits. - the whole manufacturing process is natural, and without unnatural additives are used. - the nutritional value remains intact. The chips taste just as fresh fruits - fruit chips are very thinly and baking until they are crunchy. Then is possible to eat them just as other dried fruit. - the snacks are available with many taste version

Stage of development

POLAND

Partner sought

The SME is interested in reaching new markets with the help of the foreign partners and is seeking for distributors or commercial agents. The partner specified as distributor will be the sole distributor with the right to sell the product within a particular geographic region or within multiple regions. The distributor would sell the product to their own customers on exclusive or nonexclusive basis. The partner appointed as a commercial agent should be in charge the geographical areas, or territory, duties of the principal and agent, achieving minimum sales targets. Moreover commercial agent should take responsibility for negotiate and enter into a contract of sale on a principal supplier behalf.